grades on a curve
Comparative class ranking
Grading on a curve adjusts students' scores relative to their classmates' performance rather than against a fixed standard.
Typically the highest score becomes the benchmark, or scores are distributed along a bell curve so that a set percentage receive each letter grade.
This can help students when an exam proves unexpectedly difficult, but it also means someone must land at the bottom.
The professor grades on a curve, so your actual percentage matters less than how you compare to everyone else.
- meanAverage, or spiteful
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- standard deviationSpread around the mean
- medianCentral sorted value
- modeWay or method
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